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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to introduce a 4K-capable Apple TV and updated TV app that can highlight live TV in September, is in talks with studios about 4K movies — Company plans to announce new Apple TV model in September — New model will play 4K HDR content from movie studios, apps
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Report: Roku's market share among streaming media players in US is up to 37%, with Amazon's Fire TV at 24%, Chromecast at 18%, and Apple TV down to 15% — Roku isn't only maintaining its lead as the top streaming media player device in the U.S., it's increasing it.
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Associated Press:
Fort Wayne afternoon newspaper News-Sentinel to end print, will continue online, folding some pages into business partner's morning paper, The Journal Gazette — https://apnews.com/234f8d9b361e4b9fb5d7 f93f7ebcd5cf — Link copied! — FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne …
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News-Sentinel.com, @zachklein, Inside INdiana Business and Editor & Publisher
Byron Kaye / Reuters:
Australia's antitrust regulator clears a consortium led by Lachlan Murdoch to buy TV broadcaster Ten Network, saying the move will not harm competition — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's antitrust regulator cleared on Thursday a consortium led by News Corp (NWSA.O) Co-Chairman Lachlan Murdoch …
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Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
The popular photo blog Humans of New York is becoming a 30-minute TV show on Facebook — The 30-minute series will live in the redesigned Watch tab — Humans of New York, the popular photo blog dedicated to documenting intimate moments with people from around the world, is becoming a 30-minute TV show.
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Engadget, Refinery29 and Tubefilter
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
A review of IBT Australia's website finds that it is produced by writers in the Philippines, and its office is occupied by those who say they don't work for IBT — “They're stuck in 'How do we produce the most content at the lowest cost per click', hence you end up with things like this."
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@schoofsfeed and @craigsilverman
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
YouTube's policy changes to crack down on extremist content go into effect this week with new restrictions on viewing, sharing, and monetizing videos — Selected videos will lose ads, comments and have new warnings — Policy changes announced in June to go into effect Thursday
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The Hill, BBC and CNNMoney, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Spotify renews licensing deal with Warner Music Group, clearing last hurdle before going public — Now that it has Warner Music on board, look for a nontraditional IPO at the end of this year or early 2018. — Spotify has cleared what ought to be the last major hurdle before it goes public …
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Fast Company, Fortune, The Verge and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Nicole Carroll / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Republic editor details how staff faced gas or spray to cover Trump rally aftermath, in response to email calling staff “Fake News Media” — On Wednesday morning, I was reviewing a list of 17 Republic staffers who were caught up in the gas or spray and the aftermath …
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Poynter
Nushin Rashidian / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tow Center releases an interactive timeline listing platform developments at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, Apple, and Amazon — We have entered an era in which just about every move social media and tech companies make has ramifications for journalism.
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Journalism.co.uk
Dave Brooks / Billboard:
Sources: Amazon is struggling to make inroads in US event ticketing industry due to incumbents like Ticketmaster, exclusive deals with venues, more — With little leverage besides its huge customer base, the online retail behemoth is finding that disrupting the U.S. ticketing market won't be as easy as throwing its weight around.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Finnish court orders two founders of Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm, to pay IFPI record labels $477K+ in case that began in 2011 — Two founders of The Pirate Bay have been ordered by a court in Finland to pay record labels more than $477,000 in compensation.
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